Melancholia (2011)
If you can’t get through the first five minutes, then ‘Melancholia’ is not for you
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Mission: Cross (2024)
Yum Jung-ah is terrific as the wise-cracking police woman investigating fraudsters … and maybe her husband
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Napoleon (2023)
Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby are adrift in a meandering narrative that leaves us as uninformed as we began
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Night in Paradise (2020)
Gangster gets sold out, with bloody results. But Jeon Yeo-been shines as a terminal case with a deadly aim
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Night of the Assassin (2023)
An ailing assassin with a price on his head slices through innumerable badguys and a predictable plot
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Nyad (2023)
Annette Bening and Jodie Foster demonstrate it’s not about the destination but the journey
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Ode to My Father (2014)
The tears are earned honestly in this tale of sacrifice, stubbornness and devotion
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Off to See the Wizard – Again, and Again and …
Why did a childhood enchantment became an adult obsession?
Passengers (2016)
Sadly, the distasteful cliche they chose is worse than the cliches they avoided
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Past Lives (2023)
Celine Song’s absorbing rumination on ‘what might have been’ versus ‘what is’ versus ‘what will be’